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Mr MacNeil also accused Mrs May of forgetting the UK was a union, when he was quizzed on whether Scotland would be having a referendum every three years.

“Well I think we have a referendum when the material circumstances have changed and that’s exactly what’s happened with the EU referendum.

“Theresa May has tied herself to Brexit as being the solution to everything, she’s only got one big problem and that big problem is Scotland. She fails to remember… it’s a union and it’s a union of nations.”

On Friday Mrs May attacked the First Minister as she said the SNP’s attempts for another referendum had dramatically impacted the country's public services.

Addressing the Scottish Conservatives, the PM said: “Despite the scaremongering of the SNP, and their shameful attempts to use the jobs of workers as a political football, shipbuilding jobs in Scotland will be sustained thanks to UK Government orders.

“A party resolutely focused on just one thing: independence. For them, it is not about doing the right thing. The SNP play politics as though it were a game.

“But politics is not a game and the management of devolved public services in Scotland is too important to be neglected.”

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Mrs May also said Scots do not want another referendum as she accused the SNP of having “tunnel vision”.

The PM said: “The way I look at this is very simple. I believe passionately in the Union, I’m Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, but to me what matters is how we as politicians deliver for ordinary people in their day-to-day lives.

“Politics is not a game and I can’t help but feel that the SNP does treat it as a game and they have this tunnel vision of only looking at the issue of independence.

“I think what people want to see is the SNP Government looking at the issues that matter to them on a day-to-day basis: the Scottish economy, reform of schools, jobs, the NHS.

“I think it is clear that people in Scotland don’t want a referendum. They want an SNP Government getting on with the job.”